January 29th, 2010

Two perspectives

Posted by Sunita
Under: Academic, Events & Speakers, Oxford Life, Sports & Social, Student Blogs, Sunita Rajkanwar

Things to brag about being a student of Oxford Saïd Business School
1)      That as per the latest FT ratings, we are now the second best Business School in UK and the sixteenth best in the world.  Yay! Yay! Yay!
2)      Oxford is a cute little town with 800 years of history. That means that the college [...]

January 21st, 2010

Exams, winter break and Hillary Term

Posted by Indranil
Under: Academic, Events & Speakers, Indranil Datta, Student Blogs

After a long break of about 4 weeks, we are all back to Oxford again. Frankly, while I thoroughly enjoyed vegetating during the break after a very stressful exam week, towards the end of the break I was missing the school and being with the classmates. It was sort of revisiting the school days again [...]

January 18th, 2010

Reflection on Skoll Emerge Conference

Posted by Caroline Young
Under: Caroline Young, Events & Speakers, Student Blogs

Every spring, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, based in the Saïd Business School, puts on a huge, well-attended conference called the Skoll World Forum. In an effort to extend some of the knowledge and excitement created in this conference to a student audience, this November the Centre started a new conference called Skoll:EMERGE. Students [...]

January 11th, 2010

Oxford MBA Gala Dinner

Posted by Justin Belkin
Under: Justin Belkin, Oxford Life, Sports & Social

On December 17th, 243 Oxford MBAs descended toward Ewert House, and sat for our final exam of the Michaelmas term. Decked out wearing ’sub-fusc,’ we ripped through the Marketing case study. We had spent the past week sitting for uncomfortably long periods – wearing our tuxedos with academic gown – as we constructed 3×3 matrices [...]

January 11th, 2010

What makes the Oxford name different?

Posted by Hiroki
Under: Academic, Hiroki Shimada, Oxford Life

“If we cannot make a profit, that means we are committing a sort of crime against society. We take society’s capital, we take their people, we take their materials, yet without a good profit, we are using precious resources that could be better used elsewhere.”
- Konosuke Matsushita(1894 – 1989), Founder of Panasonic Corporation
What makes the [...]